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Tuesday, April 16th, 2019

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    12:49a
    [$] Avoiding page reference-count overflows
    The 5.1-rc5 announcement mentioned
    "changes all over" and highlighted a number of the areas that
    had been touched. One thing that was not mentioned there was the
    addition of four patches fixing a security-related issue in the core
    memory-management subsystem. The vulnerability is sufficiently difficult
    to exploit that almost nobody should feel the need to rush out a kernel
    update, but it is still interesting to look at as a demonstration of how
    things can go wrong.
    2:53p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (cacti and libxslt), Fedora (pcsc-lite and samba), Gentoo (gnutls, phpmyadmin, and tiff), openSUSE (apache2, clamav, dovecot23, nodejs10, SDL, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (mod_auth_mellon and rh-python36-python), SUSE (firefox, nspr, nss and python), and Ubuntu (libxslt and webkit2gtk).
    8:07p
    [$] An update on compliance for containers

    The inability to determine the contents of container images is a topic that annoys Dirk Hohndel. At last year's Legal and Licensing Workshop (LLW), he gave a presentation that highlighted the problem and some work he had been doing to combat it. At this year's LLW, he updated attendees on the progress that has been made and where he hopes things will go from here.

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